Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks to students, parents and staff at Nolan Catholic High School while trying to build support for his school choice plan on Wednesday, April 19, 2023.

From a national lens, Huerta, who researches school choice across the U.S., doesn't consider the change of heart in Texas to be a "watershed moment" for popularity in the school choice movement ...

School choice supporters also face opposition from the State Board of Education, the 15-member Republican-controlled board that dictates what Texas’ public schoolchildren learn.

Texas has public school choice options. In 1995, state lawmakers approved the creation of public charter schools in Texas. They don’t have to follow some of the same state laws and regulations ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, R., has traveled across the state rallying support for school voucher programs.The state senate passed its school choice bill last month, which Abbott says would make 5.5 ...

The exterior of the Texas Capitol seen from Congress Avenue in Austin on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) AUSTIN – Though passage of a “school choice” bill is all ...

A sweeping Texas House bill that would kick off a limited school choice program that could balloon in future years falls short of what Gov. Greg Abbott wants.. The proposal would boost funding for ...

The Texas Federation for Children – the Texas spending arm of school choice advocacy group the American Federation for Children – raised more than $900,000 and spent more than $1 million ...

And in one state in particular — Texas — the 2024 elections may have enabled Republicans to pass school choice, which has become a key part of the GOP platform on education. Republicans have ...

David McIntosh, the group’s president, credited Abbott with the leadership to take on his fellow Republicans, who blocked school-choice options for Texas’ 5.4 million public school students.

The battle for school choice is coming to a head right now in Texas where a new bill might soon be passed providing families with $8,000 each year to send their kids to the school of their choice ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott named school choice a top priority in the 2023 legislative session. Both the Senate and House introduced bills that would create education savings accounts for students to ...